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New Book: "Did a Military Lab Spill Anthrax Into Public Waterways?" [1]

"Unsterilized laboratory wastewater from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, spewed out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor holding tank, the pressure catapulting it over the short concrete wall that was supposed to contain hazardous spills."

Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Military [4]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
Source: KFF Health News [11], 04/26/2023
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"EPA Reaches Deal To Police Pennsylvania’s Pollution of Chesapeake Bay" [12]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to step up enforcement in Pennsylvania to ensure that it meets targets for reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, state and environmental officials announced Thursday."

Agriculture [13]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [10]
Source: Washington Post [18], 04/21/2023
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"US Cities See 'Urban Mining' Potential In Building Deconstruction" [19]

"The cavernous Maryland warehouse housing Community Forklift bulges with doors, windows, flooring and light fixtures, some lightly used, some more so, but all for sale at big discounts."

Infrastructure [20]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [21], 04/19/2023
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"New York City Appointed A Rat Czar. Her Job Will Be A Tall Ask" [22]

"New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been locked in a multiyear war with millions of his constituents. "Everyone that knows me knows one thing: I hate rats," he said in an October 2022 press conference."

Biodiversity [23]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [3]
Waste [6]
Wildlife [25]
Public [8]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]
Source: NPR [27], 04/14/2023
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Indiana Plastics Fire Extinguished, But Residents’ Health Concerns Remain [28]

"After firefighters spent two days battling an inferno fueled by plastics in eastern Indiana, the fire has been fully extinguished, officials said. “We’re now able to turn our attention to collecting air and water samples to determine when the evacuation order can be lifted,” Richmond Mayor Dave Smith told CNN Thursday night."

Air [29]
Chemicals [30]
Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [3]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: CNN [33], 04/14/2023
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"Hundreds Forced From Indiana Homes As Plastics Fire Burns" [34]

"An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people remained in place Wednesday night around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked to douse piles of burning plastics."

Air [29]
Chemicals [30]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Source: AP [36], 04/13/2023
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"Groups Petition US EPA To Force Reporting Of Waste Incinerator Emissions" [37]

"Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require companies to disclose the chemicals discharged from waste incinerators and plants that claim to recycle plastic waste into fuel."

Air [29]
Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Reuters [39], 04/04/2023
  • Read more about "Groups Petition US EPA To Force Reporting Of Waste Incinerator Emissions" [37]

When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide [40]

"In the fast-changing Bering Sea, a small tribe makes a big push to save their island".

Biodiversity [23]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [31]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [25]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [41]
Source: Sierra [42], 03/29/2023
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Scientists Uncover Startling Amounts of DDT Along Seafloor Off LA Coast [43]

"First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground—and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [3]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
California [44]
Source: LA Times [45], 03/27/2023
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"Waste Pickers Collect Food Waste, Help Combat Climate Change" [46]

"Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon city just north of Manila every morning except Sundays, collecting bags of segregated garbage."

Climate Change [47]
Food [48]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
Australia & Oceania [49]
Source: AP [50], 03/21/2023
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